If you read my blog yesterday, you will know that my legs were completely dead during my easy pace run.  I was hoping that my legs would feel better today, but as I got ready to do my workouts this evening, they were not feeling that much better.

The workout schedule, that I had from my coach today, consisted of two workouts.  The first workout was an optional, easy paced run, for up to 30 minutes.  The main workout of the day, was a hard session on the bike. 

As evening rolled around, my decision about the optional run, was easy to make.  I chose not to do it.  My thinking was that it was more important to do the bike session, and given it was a harder effort workout, I wanted to give it my all. 

I try really hard to put in maximum effort, on my hard workouts.  Tonight’s session was the last hard workout, before I will back off for Christmas.  I thought, let’s crush it and then I can recover over the next few days. This was very sound thinking.  Knowing I had an easy few days coming up, I believed that I should be able to suck up any pain from a hard workout.  Just get through it, and then back off for a few days. 

The bike workout consisted of four hard intervals. Each interval was five minutes of big gear work, followed by two minutes of above threshold work.  After my warm up, I hit the first interval hard and was quite pleased with how it went.   The second interval was tougher and I was really sweating hard during the third. 

I had one more interval to get through, and mentally, I was all set to go all out. Then, ten seconds before the last big gear work started, the power went out.  Everything went dark and my smart trainer lost all resistance. My workout was over.

As I write this blog, my quads are ‘burning’, so clearly I had a great workout.  This has gotten me thinking about, whether the power going out was a sign. Had I already done enough?  Was I about to go too deep?  I will never know, but I am very satisfied with that bike session, even if it was cut a little short.